On: Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018

[xfer]

Yes, i miss the days when i could make changes to the system and recompile in under a minute on Plan9. Such a distraction free programming environment.

[trasz → xfer]

Do you always need to rebuild everything? In FreeBSD, for example, you can do eg “cd bin/ls && make all install”; takes seconds.

[ori_b → xfer]

I don't -- because they never fully went away. I'm typing this on a 9front system right now.

[anthk → xfer]

9front still works.